Creationist dinosaur theme park fails miserably

Ooh, look! It's DinoJesus! With that uncontrovertable evidence, how could anyone deny that man and dinosaur walked the earth together? (Well, the dinos walked, anyway. Apparently, man rode.)

Hovind got ten years for tax evasion; couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

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The writer of this "news" article obviously would rather place his belief in a theroy rather that fact. Facts are overwhelming that man and "dinosaurs" did walk the earth together. Evoltion is just that, a theroy, so why is Kent Howards 'theroy" differant than any other. The only thing Kent is guilty of is breaking the law by not applying for building permits. 10 years? Common! The theme park "failed miserably"? I wonder what the actual attendence to this park was. Mr. Morgan made this claim without actually proving it in his article. All he did was try to coerce his readers into believing his make-believe!

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What does "failed miserably" actually mean? I'm sure it doesn't mean the same to all parties. Perhaps this wasn't supposed to be a money-making venture. Maybe he just wanted to reach people with his ideas. You know..."If I can have changed one person's life, it will all be worth it." That's hardly miserable failure.

You do know that belief in Creation and belief in the Theory of Evolution are actually compatible, don't you? It doesn't have to be an either-or discussion.

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Grendel, please please PLEASE amuse me with the "overwhelming" "facts" that dinosaurs and man walked the earth together. I need a good laugh this morning. And by the way, it is spelled EVOLUTION.

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Yes, Stacy. There is a comma between two 'pleases' and it's improper to start a sentence with the word 'and'.

Typos are a part of the blog world. It's childish to try to make it look like someone's point is invalid because they dropped a letter.

Make your argument and leave the ridicule on the playground.

I'd be curious to see evidence of dinosaurs and men walking the earth together, too.

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Hovind is a real piece of work. Regardless of anyone's beliefs about evolution and/or creation, Hovind isn't the guy I'd want on my side. When I was in ugrad, my school hosted a debate between him and a philosophy professor about the existence of God. He was all propaganda and a joke. Hovind tried to turn the thing into an infomercial for his materials, and had no substance to his debate. I'm a Christian, and I have to say, if I had to choose Hovind as the spokesman for faith, I'd rather be an atheist.

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"I'm still amazed at the lengths some people will go to coerce others to believe in their make-believe."

Kind of like how you write totally one-sided, bleeding-heart posts and present them as multi-faceted fact.

I don't have an opinion about evolution vs. creation, but your article gets on my damn nerves.

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DINOSAURS - Every natural history museum in the world today displays large dinosaur models. Their defensive teeth, spikes and claws are often shown extended. As evidence of the prior existence of these kinds of creatures we have a myriad of bones found on multiple continents, footprints buried in sedimentary layers and ... legends. All over the world people remember the dangerous dragons of old. But they slowly went extinct. Men feared and hated them. Stories of ancient encounters with dinosaurs/dragons are found in China, Thailand, including other parts of Asia, and in Roman, Russian, Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, North, South, and Central America, and across Africa too. Are we so much smarter and more academically inclined than all of our ancestors that we should reject all of their historical records - just to prop up temporary evolutionary theory?

Carbon-14 dating of carbon buried in the same layer with dragon bones helps to confirm that they are really only thousands of years old. The myth-ions and myth-ions of years never happened; only in the past 200 years has it become fashionable to forget our true ancient history (of thousands of years) in favor of God-hating (or: "bumbling-inherently-weak-god") evolution. Evolution requires the belief in long epochs of supposed time and chance improvements.

Dragons and sea monsters have become mostly extinct prior to our modern era. By the way, there is evidence that they grew much larger prior to the Great Flood. Just as humans lived much longer (Genesis records ages of some people to have reached over 900 years!) so a reptile ... living much longer then could have grown much larger before the Flood - which is indeed what we see in the fossil record of the pre-Flood world.

Humans and lions live on Earth at the same time today. But we live in different places. Porpoises will ram sharks that come into their waters. So naturally then they also live in different places - while living at the same time. Why couldn't humans and dinosaurs have lived at the same time? They'd probably keep mostly separate and then get buried separately if there was a catastrophe, but this could be theoretically possible, correct? There are at least two places known today with human and dinosaur tracks in the same sedimentary layer: one is in Paluxy, Texas, the other in Eastern Turkmenistan. Plus we have the legends, from all inhabited continents mind you, which should not be automatically discounted
goto http://www.creationism.org/topbar/dinosaurs.htm for more info...

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You know, my actual point was that the title of this post was a gross misrepresentation of the facts about this story. He was using that fact that the park was closed down to show it had failed, meaning that the idea of the park( which was contrary to his own beliefs) had caused its closure. When it was really closed down for legal reasons that had nothing to do with what the park itself represented. We can argue evolUtion vs creationism for decades and I won't change your mind and you won't change mine. One day though, after we die, we will discover the truth and unlike people who believe in evolUtion I don't want to take the chance that there is a God who loves us and wants us spend eternity with Him. As the bumpersticker says..." if your living as if there is no God, you'd better be right!"

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